@Alahra - According to what I just read regarding melds, after 3.2 you cannot overmeld anymore. They said they will increase the base stats of the crafted gear, but not allow you to meld primary stats. The plus is you can also meld secondary stats to tombs/raid gear.

Source from Octopus over at BG:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ussion/cwcc04d

Here's another source of all the slides from the Live Letter:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...XDRxjDt3YI/pub Towards the bottom is the materia info.

So that basically takes care of melding, outside of secondary stats. So like you said, it won't discourage melding for secondary stats. The reason I brought up WD and secondary stats is they all have some kind of stat weighting for how dps can be increased. WD being the highest, primary stats being the second highest, and secondary stats. Depending on how they want to change damage output, they could hit any one of those three. Though, I will agree that WD and secondary stats seem to not be something they will do.